A report suggests ties between Meta's facial recognition technology and a company that sells surveillance tools to military and police.

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[–] 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (5 children)

It's insane to me that humanity, as in civilians, don't seem to care. We don't even live natural humanity anymore...

People love to shit on peter theil, but we are basically part of creating a path to the crazy shit he talks about. And because of that, in some ways, he is correct to be pushing for what he believes, because in a cyber world it's basic necessity.

When I step back and look at humanity is feels gut wrenchingly evil, as if evil controls the world and has already sucked the soul from our "modern civilizations".

Also it's as if everything I was taught to live for growing up was a lie. Like every generation gets told lies to keep them in line for some grand orchestrated ideological path that is separated from the honest essence of what it means to be human. And then once you get old enough to realize, you get labelled crazy.

I wish young people would realize this. But it's also like telling the truth to them kills their innocence because the honest reality is... Life is war and chaos and if you aren't in that reality, you're kind of just existing as an escapist and a tool for something inhumane. It sounds odd and contradictory, but it's not as paradoxical as it seems.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    On a surface level, it's the same type of shit that got Trump into office. The bad things only happen to bad people so this won't affect them. Same mentality as "if you have nothing to hide why are you so worried about it?"

    The people that don't care either don't think it's a big deal because they are one of the "good" ones or they believe these billionaires have their best interest in mind. What they don't realize is that it has nothing to do good vs evil and the powers that be can decide at any point to change their definition of good and evil. Being one of the good ones today can only be helpful if the powers that be keep the same definition of good consistent, which they usually don't.

    Tl;dr The leopards won't eat my face, so I have nothing to worry about.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    And there's your first problem: you say humanity when you almost exclusively talk about the US. Things are distinctly less dystopian in other places.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

    I basically mean any modern nation.

    Thanks for sounding like a cunt.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Your very dystopian view of the world doesn't align with what is going on in a lot of "modern" nations, whatever that definition covers. The EU, NZ, Canada (and others, but I don't follow them) on some topics are progressing quite a bit.

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